Inputs From Income Statement:: Total Revenue
Inputs From Income Statement:: Total Revenue
Inputs From Income Statement:: Total Revenue
To understand what we mean by incremental fixed capital, let's break this phrase down into its
component parts:
Incremental. This means that we want to look at the additional cash a company annually invests
in its long term operating assets.
Fixed. This means we look at cash tied up in long term operating assets such as property, plant,
and equipment (PP&E) and capitalized leases.
Capital. This is the amount of cash a company has spend annually in fixed capital in order to run
its business.
For industrial companies, then, incremental fixed capital equals the cash a company invests
annually in long term operating assets.
We can calculate a company's annual investment in fixed capital by analyzing its cash flow
statement. To calculate a company's gross fixed capital investments, we sum the following items:
Capital expenditures
Capitalized software costs
Other investment activities, net
Acquisitions, net of cash acquired
However, before we finish, we need to deduct depreciation (found on the Cash Flow Statement in
the "Cash flows from operating activities" section). This is because we want to calculate the cash
invested above and beyond a company's annual depreciation. The underlying assumption is that
depreciation is a rough estimate for how much a company must spend to maintain its physical
assets. In other words, we consider only capital investments above and beyond depreciation as
incremental.
Building on this metric, we can calculate how much incremental fixed capital Domino's must invest
to generate a dollar of new sales:
Over this five year period, then, Domino's invested $189 million into its fixed capital in order to
generate $1.6 billion in incremental sales. In other words, Domino's invested 11.6% of incremental
sales into fixed capital.
In the Price-Implied Expectations (PIE) analysis we perform in the book, we assume that Domino's
will invest slightly under this amount at 10.0% of incremental sales (see page 92).
2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
-70.1 -63.3 -58.6 -90.0 -119.9 -85.6
0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0
-70.1 -63.3 -58.6 -90.0 -119.9 -85.6
35.8 32.4 38.1 44.4 53.7 59.9
-34.3 -30.8 -20.4 -45.6 -66.2 -25.6
Total Gross Fixed Capital Investments (70.1) (63.3) (58.6) (90.0) (119.9) (85.6)
Net Fixed Capital Investments (34.3) (30.8) (20.4) (45.6) (66.2) (25.6)
Incremental Fixed Capital Investment Rate 13.9% 8.0% 14.5% 10.3% 13.8%